Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [11th - 16th August 2017]

[fez]

Countinho isn't half the player Suarez is/was. Liverpool have done some fantastic business with him.

Have to say I would be trying to wind Luiz up if I was Burnley. Hes on the edge of a red.

 

[antijoke]

Why do you say he's gone?

 

[Purdy]

Why do you say he's gone?

Klopps comments

 

[Shamikebab]

Did everyone forget how to defend over the summer?

 

[Purdy]

Did everyone forget how to defend over the summer?

Can't forget if you never learned

 

[Mark1989]

Did everyone forget how to defend over the summer?

We never could so don't know excise for other teams lol.

 

[fez]

Morata giveth and Morata taketh.

 

[McBain]

Been some poor results for some teams today, but Crystal Palace? 3 nil down at home to Huddersfield? That's truly appalling.

 

[fez]

This is turning into a disaster for Chelsea.

 

[McBain]

Chelsea down to 9.

 

[fez]

Another entirely deserved red. Bad challenge and it was already on a yellow. How stupid can you get.

 

[BaZ87]

Klopps comments

If you watch Klopp's post match press conference it appears as if Klopp is referring to the owners decision not to sell him. I guess he's putting it on the owners to keep Coutinho on side if/when he stays.

 

[TallPaul1878]

Everton have looked rock solid. Second half made the changes to sort that bizarre starting line up out and they have totally dominated the game.

Stoke can't get out of their own half. High balls up to Crouch are being gobbled up by Pickford and Keane. Gueye and Davies are snatching everything back and Schneiderlin is finding Rooney all over the park.

 

[Mark1989]

Chelsea making our defending look at least slightly normal.

 

[TallPaul1878]

Pickford has taken every ball into the box that Stoke have lumped in.

 

[TallPaul1878]

WORLD CLASS save from Pickford.

Shaqiri smashes it towards the top left hand corner but Pickford claws it away.

A comfortable victory in the end though. Rooney was inspired and at the heart of every Everton attack.

A couple more signings, Sigurdsson perhaps, and I'm confident Everton can make a real challenge against the top 4.

 

[Marky]

Poor stuff from Palace overall - Only couple of positives were Loftus-Cheek made some great crosses, and I was impressed with how quick Fosu-Mensah was. But the team never looked like they knew what they were doing

 

[Robbo]

Chelsea just seem to be a mess, again. Obviously everyone is unhappy, the manager and the players. I can see Conte going before long.

 

[dannyjo22]

A couple more signings, Sigurdsson perhaps, and I'm confident Everton can make a real challenge against the top 4.

It's a bit early to be drinking Mr Martinez.

 

[fez]

Rooney was inspired and at the heart of every Everton attack.

A couple more signings, Sigurdsson perhaps, and I'm confident Everton can make a real challenge against the top 4.

That will soon end. Soon Rooney will be ruining all your attacks and you will be wishing you never signed him. You were also playing stoke and you won 1 - 0 at home. I wouldn't get too carried away!